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披沙拣金
pī​shā​jiǎn​jīn

selecting

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
披沙拣金 (披沙揀金) pī​shā​jiǎn​jīn
selecting idiom
to separate the wheat from the chaff; to extract the best or most valuable parts from a large quantity of material
sifting
to sort the gold from the sand

Frequency

Written text
0.017 per million

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